From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/29/1862, p. 2, c. 3

In Town. – H. W. Perkins, 1st
Lieut. Of the 55th N. Y. S. M., and four other
Abolitionists, captured near Ashland, Va., have been lodged in the
Confederate Prison in Richmond. Yesterday a Spaniard named Pedro
Alvarez, Sergeant in Company I, 58th N. Y. regiment, was
captured below this city, on the Chickahominy, and brought to this
city. He had been eating dinner with a man, and on leaving asking to
be pointed to the camp of the Yankees, was shown where a group of
our boys were stationed. Alvarez had been out on picket.